502 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



rock, with 5 feet AAater on it, lies 135 yards northwestward of the 

 eastern entrance point ; and a rock, with 8 feet water over it, 55 yards 

 from the bhiff point on the Jiorthwestern shore, leaving a passage 

 150 yards wide between the rocks. A deep valley to the northwest- 

 ward of the apparently highest hill on Cottle island, in line with the 

 summit of the Eastern Puzzle Harbor rock, bearing about 171°, leads 

 through this passage to the anchorage in 4| fathoms water. 



The head of this harbor is shallow as far south as the small islet 

 on the western shore. 



Water can be obtained from a small stream on the eastern shore. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Little Chance harbor 

 at 7 h. 13 m. : springs rise 4f feet. 



Chance Harbor head, on the western side of Little Chance harbor, 

 is 263 feet high. West rock, with 2^ fathoms water over it, bears 

 192°, distant 1,200 j^arcls from the southwestern point of Chance 

 Harbor head. A group of rocks partly aboA^e water lies J mile 

 south-southeastward of the same point, and there is a group of 

 rocks i mile southward of Little Chance Harbor entrance. 



Green island, I mile northwestward of the northwestern point of 

 Chance Harbor head, is about ^ mile long, eastward and westward, 

 200 yards wide and 87 feet high. Killick Stone islet lies 400 yards 

 northward of it, and at 400 yards east-southeastward of this islet 

 there is a patch of 4^ fathoms. 



The passag-e between Green island and the islets off Black and 

 Little Black islands is lx% miles wide and clear. 



The western coast of New World island forms a bight between 

 Chance Harbor head and Dicky head, at ly% miles northward; it 

 then curves northward for If miles to_ Western head. 



Big Gull island, about \ mile westward of the coast of New World 

 island, 1]- miles northward of Dicky head, is | mile long northeast- 

 ward and southwestward ; narrow, and 100 feet high near its south- 

 western end. It is covered with grass, and its northwestern coast 

 consists of black clifif's. There is a rock with 15 feet water over it 

 in the channel between Big Gull island and New World island. 



Little Gull island, close southwestward of Big Gull island, is a 

 dark rock about 60 feet high, with deep clefts extending from its 

 summit. 



Hussey rock, 300 yards northeastward of Big Gull island, is 10 feet 

 high. 



Western head of New World island rises steeply to a bare mound 

 100 feet high, and Baldney rock, 11 feet high, lies close northeastward 

 of the head. 



Pearce harbor, about 600 yards eastward of Western head, is an 

 inlet 600 yards in extent. Fishing vessels anchor in it in 3^ fathoms 

 water, sheltered except from northerly winds. 



